2 chapters across the catalog
President Obama's statements regarding the decline of violent crime in American cities are analyzed for their logic regarding gun ownership. While Obama acknowledged that crime has dropped over the last 20 years, he challenged the notion that increased gun ownership is the cause. The hosts point to cities like Chicago as counter-examples where strict regulations have not prevented high levels of violence.
John Dixon, Data Analysis Limits and the Mumbai Terror Attacks
John Dixon explains that the ability to collect data far exceeds the ability to analyze it, leading to massive backlogs of unexamined intelligence. He cites the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks as a case where Indian intelligence had recorded the communications but failed to correlate the data until after the event. Dixon argues that mass surveillance often makes the "haystack" larger, making it harder for analysts to find critical "needles."
